Ashes of Love, We’ll Never Meet Again

From the back cover

At twenty-five, Jackie Madden brought his first love to Clara Gallegos's bedside and told her he meant to marry the woman after she was gone. Clara died at seventy-six; three months later, Jackie, aged eighty-three, married seventy-seven-year-old Mara in a grand wedding, while no one spoke of the wife who had served him for half a lifetime. Then Clara opens her eyes again, returned to three months before the heart attack that killed her.

In this second chance she refuses to die in the same grave as him. When Jackie urges her to get up and cook, she tells him to make it himself, and when he brings Mara home from a walk in South Park, Clara sets her golden retriever, Carter, on the intruder. Watching Jackie hide his meetings with Mara, she burns the hundreds of photographs of their life together and registers to donate her body.

With only three months, Clara means to settle everything before the end, so that her loved ones never suffer and her enemies never rejoice.